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Musician Horse visits New Struan School

The pupils at our day and residential school, New Struan School, had a very special visitor earlier in the year. Singer/songwriter Horse came by for a visit on Monday 30th April with her sound engineer Andy and played us her song ‘Careful’ at the end of our assembly. All pupils really enjoyed the performance and getting to meet her.

Following this visit, on Friday 4th May, both Horse and Andy returned to support pupils Jason and Jack to create and produce their own music tracks. Jack and Jason are both passionate about music and enjoy performing and playing their music to their peers.

Horse is the ambassador for Nordoff Robbins Scotland, a charity who provides our music therapy service. Our music therapist, Janet McLachlan kindly made the connection for us. Jack has weekly music therapy sessions with Janet where he has been working to develop his confidence and his ability to collaborate. Working with Horse and Andy allowed Jack to further explore his potential in song writing and recording.

Head Teacher at the school, Lucy Chetty, said, “All the pupils loved having her perform and Jack and Jason have been really able to explore their musical talents with her and Andy.”

The students described the visit as ‘fantastic’, ‘brilliant’ and ‘exciting’.

Jack’s music track is influenced by EDM music and various artists, including Alan Walker and Clean Bandit. Listen here: Jack- Dark Colours

Jason enjoys creating music in an ambient electronic style under the pseudonym Asendo. Listen to his track: Asendo- Scottish by Nature

Horse returned to assembly on May 14th to perform another song for us, ‘Speed of the Beat’ and said of her visit, “I had a great time working with Jack and Jason. They are very good musicians and producers and we should all be proud of them as they have done a fantastic job.”

Watch a clip of Horse performing at the school.

 

 

For more information about Horse McDonald:

www.horsemcdonald.com

For more information about Nordoff Robbins music therapy:

www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk

www.nrscot.org.uk